Reasons Mastodon Won't Survive (2017)
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There is also no opposition to their conspiratorial nonsense and there is nothing leftists hate more than not antagonising their political opponents.
I ran the experiment where I watched 40 accounts claim they were leaving twitter and only 1 is now not continuing to post regularly. I am very confident these results are repeatable.
Nobody would love to see these social media companies crumble more than me, but I can be absolutely certain it will not be because of mastodon.
Exactly. You can see how this happened with journa.host and it spoilt the reach of many journalists signing up on there because moderators on other instances banned it because of purely ideological reasons. [0]
> There is also no opposition to their conspiratorial nonsense and there is nothing leftists hate more than not antagonising their political opponents.
Yes, the media spreading conspiracies and lies about an imminent Twitter shutdown with false narratives and emotional outrage. [1]
> I ran the experiment where I watched 40 accounts claim they were leaving twitter and only 1 is now not continuing to post regularly. I am very confident these results are repeatable.
The fact many still pretending that they are 'leaving Twitter' [2] is quite hilarious to see, with hardly a dent in Twitter's 200M+ users not caring. The whole point in general here is they should have left years ago, way before Musk purchased the platform rather tolerate the spread of CP, exploitation, etc on the site for decades which Twitter failed to stop. Hence this, advertisers didn't have any of that. [3]
> Nobody would love to see these social media companies crumble more than me, but I can be absolutely certain it will not be because of mastodon.
Correct. Twitter is an eternal outrage machine and given you are seeing federated social networks like Mastodon which frankly has proven itself to be much slower with a higher sign up barrier, telling users to find and choose an instance after going on one of them and getting themselves banned and de-federated, it's no wonder that not only it cannot scale [4] [5] [6] it is unsustainable and many users are admitting that it is much worse than Twitter, even on here: [7].
Replacing Twitter with a worse social network is not the solution.
[0] https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1594432548222152705
[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
[2] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2349641-most-people-who...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-brands-blast-tw...
[4] https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2022/11/14/scaling-mastodon/
[5] https://community.hachyderm.io/blog/2022/12/03/leaving-the-b...
Most revealing segment.